This is an analysis of the poem I Go Back To The House For A Book that begins with:
I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdedbfXfghijehfaXghfXbkfiiXkjadiXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 111001101 1001101010 11110110010 010100101 010110110 011001101 11101 11011 111011 010011 010100101 001100101 010101010 101011 0111111 01100101101 11010010 01010110111 100001101101 1101101 110111 111101 0111101011 001110 1110010 101011110 101111011 101101001 111101 1111010 10110 1011100010 111011111 00110010 1111001 11010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1180
- Average number of words per stanza: 243
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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